Drive! : Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age
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New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2016].
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9780553394184, 0553394185
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Oak Brook Public Library - Nonfiction
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Published
New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2016].
Format
Book
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x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780553394184, 0553394185

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Statement of responsibility from the dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index.
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"A revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, ... [a] true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly fifty thousand visitors. Among the spectators was an obscure would-be automaker named Henry Ford, who walked the floor speaking with designers and engineers, trying to gauge public enthusiasm for what was then a revolutionary invention. His conclusion: the automobile was going to be a fixture in American society, both in the city and on the farm-- and would make some people very rich. None, he decided, more than he. [This book] is the most complete account to date of the wild early days of the auto age ... [and] shows that the creation of the automobile was not the work of one man, but very much a global effort. ... With a narrative as propulsive as its subject, [the book] plunges us headlong into a time unlike any in history, when near-manic innovation, competition, and consumerist zeal coalesced to change the way the world moved."--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Goldstone, L. (2016). Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age (First Edition.). Ballantine Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-. 2016. Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age. Ballantine Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-. Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age Ballantine Books, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Goldstone, Lawrence. Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age First Edition., Ballantine Books, 2016.

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